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Arturo Ubico Urruela, father of General Ubico. Jorge Ubico was the son of Arturo Ubico Urruela, a lawyer and politician of the Guatemalan Liberal Party.Ubico Urruela was a member of the legislature that wrote the Guatemalan Constitution of 1879, and was subsequently the president of the Guatemalan Congress during the government of Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1898–1920).
On 3 July, Ponce Vaides forced the Guatemalan congress at gunpoint to appoint him interim president. [1] Ponce pledged to hold free elections soon, while at the same time suppressing the protests. [3] Freedom of the press was suspended, [3] arbitrary detentions continued, and memorial services for slain revolutionaries were prohibited. [4]
The president of Guatemala (Spanish: Presidente de Guatemala), officially titled President of the Republic of Guatemala (Spanish: Presidente de la República de Guatemala), is the head of state and head of government of Guatemala, elected to a single four-year term. The position of President was created in 1839.
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Presidential elections were held on 4 July 1944, which declared Ponce as the president. However, the opposition rejected the results, and as a result, on 20 October 1944, a group of young officers overthrew Ponce, creating a military-civilian government called the Revolutionary Government Junta.
Presidential elections were held in Guatemala between 17 and 19 December 1944. [1] The October Revolution had overthrown Jorge Ubico, the American-backed dictator, [2] after which a junta composed of Francisco Javier Arana, Jacobo Árbenz and Jorge Toriello took power, and quickly announced presidential elections, as well as elections for a constitutional assembly. [3]
A presidential election was held in Guatemala on 4 July 1944. President Jorge Ubico y Castañeda resigned on 1 July 1944. “For the last two weeks of June, students, teachers, workers, women, and middle-class professionals had demonstrated their opposition to his dictatorial policies.
Arévalo served as Guatemalan president from 15 March 1945 to 15 March 1951. He was elected in 1944 , in a contest which is generally reckoned as Guatemala's first truly free election. Arévalo won over 86 percent of the vote, more than four times as many votes as the other candidates combined.